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May 20, 2001

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Wake Forest head coach George Greer
"Cory Sullivan, what can I say? He leads the game off with a home run and comes out in the bottom of the inning and strikes people out. He hits another home run and gets a big RBI single. He is just immense. He is what college baseball is all about-someone who can do it all."

How important was the early lead?
"Traditionally when you look at college baseball the team that scores first usually primarily wins the game.. We talked about that prior to the game. We wanted to get on the board first, hopefully with a crooked number. We did get on the board first with a single run and then put a crooked number up in the second."

"NC State was great. I had watched them play during the course of the tournament and they were the team that was on fire. Coach Avent, Coach Lawler and Coach Best did a wonderful job getting these people prepared. They got healthy at the right time. They had been hurt all year and we knew that. We knew the kind of players that they had. They have great players. They are young, athletic and they started swinging the bat. When you start swinging the bat in a ballpark like this, and it is a great setting, good things are going to happen.

NC State head coach Elliott Avent
"It was the first time this year Derek (McKee) has come back on three days rest. (Jason) Blanton did the other day, but he was a bigger, stronger kid. Derek really didn't have anything when he went out there, but he battled like we knew he would."

"I'm not saying it didn't happen but I think 16 of the 17 runs came with two out. What that tells me is our guys battled their butts off and couldn't make the pitch because they were out of juice. Give credit to Wake Forest because they are a great ball club. Not only do the swing the bats, but they capitalize with two outs."

 

 

"We are proud of our guys. They kept battling. Even when it was 7-0, I thought we were going to win the thing. Obviously the big blow was the single by Nick Blue and then Sullivan put it out of reach.